Top 5 Fun Classroom Games for ESL/EFL | Games to Play in English Class with Kids, Teens or Adults

If you’re looking to create some fun and excitement in your classes, then consider these fun classroom games for ESL/EFL. This video will get you started with awesome and fun English games to try out with students! Watch along, and comment - what do you think of these games? Would you suggest any other ESL or EFL games and activities to excite your classroom? Help your students learn English in a fun, student-centred, and engaging way with these classroom games for kids, teenagers or adults. Need more ideas to have some fun in the TEFL classroom? You'll want to check out even more of the best ideas right here: https://www.eslactivity.org/fun-classroom-games/ ---------------------------- More fun ideas for young learners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMaxTc1StFM& ----------------------------- Want to find out more about fun classroom games? 101 ESL Activities for Adults: https://amzn.to/2QEqH1B https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #eslgames #teachingenglishwithjackie #teachingenglish #teachingenglishabroad #eslteacher -------------------------------- Solid advice for teaching ESL: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------------------- More ideas for fun ESL games from @Andy - The ESL Guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Si6SJUOj4c&t=1s -------------------------------- Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:13 Concentration 1:03 Mystery box 1:37 A-Z game 2:37 Odd one out 3:05 Twenty questions 4:09 Conclusion Transcript for fun ESL games and activities: Hi everybody. It's Jackie from eslspeaking.org. So today it's all about the top five fun classroom games. This is for English learners or ESL or EFL classes. The first game is concentration. This is excellent for helping students remember new vocabulary words. Make up some sets of cards. So for example, there's maybe, if you do animals, there's a picture of an elephant, a tiger, cheetah. And then on the other card, you have the words elephant, tiger, cheetah. Put students into groups of maybe three to five and each group would get a set of cards. They mix them up and place them face down kind of in an organized fashion on one of the desks. They can do rocks, scissors, paper. The first student grabs two cards. They turn them over: tiger picture but elephant word. Not a match so they put them down in the same spot. They do not mix them up randomly but in the same spot and then the next student goes. It's basically just kind of a memory matching game that focuses on vocabulary. All right, the next one is the mystery box. So this is a great game for kids who are just learning some very basic words. For example, classroom vocabulary. Make up kind of a fun box with a hole in it and you can cover the hole with some tissue paper or I don't know, just something, whatever to kind of cover it loosely. One student can reach their hand in and they can feel around and maybe make some guesses about what kind of objects are in there, how they feel, are they hard, soft, long, thin, thick, heavy, light, etc. Number three, is the A to z game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ8UuOQEuWM). So this is a nice activity if you think that students have already covered that topic that you're teaching that day quite well. It can help them to activate their prior knowledge about vocabulary words. So let's use the example of animals again. I put students into groups of two or three and I have them write the alphabet on a piece of paper so a, b, c, d, all the way to z. If you want to save time, you could just give a handout that has done this already. And then I say okay, you have two minutes to write down as many animals as you can. One per letter. So for example, maybe they don't know an a, they could skip it. Then bat, cat, dog, fish, monkey, tiger, etc. After the two minutes, the team with the most animals is the winner. Number four is odd one out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80vtLosY1JA). So this is a simple warm-up activity to work on critical thinking skills and also vocabulary. Write down four words on the board. Here's a very simple example: apple orange banana carrot. I put students into groups of two and they have to say which one is the odd one out and why. For this one, the obvious thing is a carrot because it's a vegetable and not a fruit. Number five is 20 questions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q0Osbuh8yg). This is a classic game that you've probably played before but it's also quite fun to play in English classes. For lower-level students, it can be a little bit tricky. I sometimes make it into 10 questions and it's more related to a certain topic. For example, animals. If you want to kind of prevent the one student from choosing platypus or t-rex or just something kind of like the other students may not know or would never guess you can give flash cards. And whoever holds the secret and is answering